Re: Compressed Filesystem

Chris Mason
2008-10-28T15:47:27Z

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:54 -0400, Lee Trager wrote:
> I have read on the mailing list that there has been some interest in
> implementing transparent compression on btrfs and I too am thinking about
> trying to implement it. Before I start from scratch I am wondering if
> anyone else has started to work on this and if so how far along have
> they gotten? I would be happy to work on this alone or with someone else
> but currently I am doing some preliminary research.

Compression is working on my machine, I'm just running some long tests
before I push it out to the unstable repo. The current code uses the
in-kernel zlib implementation.

-chris